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Canada: How the Charter of Rights let Canada down
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Mark A. Taff
Website: http://www.marktaff.com
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But by any definition, freezing someone’s assets without due process is a violation of civil liberties. Likewise depriving people of their livelihoods or taking away people’s right to refuse to perform work for the government. You may think that these violations are justified, but that doesn’t change the fact that they are violations.
But Canadians’ grasp of the constitutional facts have been so atrophied by decades of unthinking Charter worship that many are no longer able to think about rights independently of it, to see that rights do not begin and end with a piece of paper with an impressive title. Just because the emergency decrees pay lip service to the Charter doesn’t make them any less rights-violating. |
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repealfederalgunlaws
(2/19/2022)
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This article gets so much correct then ends with utter nonsense and a pipe dream hoping for "robust societal consensus" to protect rights. This article goes out of it's WAY to avoid talking about gun ownership.
The writer says "active thinking and discussion" about rights will somehow protect individual rights. Tyrants LOVE that level of stupid.
This final line is true though: "Through the Charter, Canadians have gained a constitutional guarantee for certain rights formulated in abstract terms, but may have lost much of the cultural wherewithal..." YEA THEY LOST THE WHEREWITHAL BY COWARDLY HANDING OVER MOST OF THEIR GUNS AND LETTING THAT RIGHT BE LICENSED! Canadians have been absolute fools and they're paying the price. |
| Comment by:
repealfederalgunlaws
(2/19/2022)
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| And by the way, that article won't let you comment without a paid subscription, despite claiming you can for free. |
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